As used in this chapter:
(a) “Billposter” means any person engaging in the business for hire of posting, fastening, nailing or otherwise affixing any written, painted or printed matter of any kind, or other form or reproduction thereof, hereinafter called “sign”, containing a message or information of any kind whatsoever, to any outdoor billboard or to or upon any bridge, fence, pole, post, sidewalk or tree or to or upon the exterior of any other structure. However, the terms of this definition shall not apply to nor include any such sign mounted on, fastened to or suspended from the outside of any building or other structure, in accordance with and authorized by any provisions of an ordinance or statute, either for any public convenience or use, or regulating the construction or use of so-called outdoor display signs, whether such display signs are illuminated or not.
(b) “Commercial handbill” means any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature:
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity or thing;
(2) Which directs attention to any business, mercantile or commercial establishment or other activity, for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interests thereof by sales;
(3) Which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance, motion picture, exhibition or event of any kind for which an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain or profit. The terms of this clause shall not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to such meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind, when either of the same is held, given or takes place in connection with the dissemination of information which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public peace, safety and good order. Nothing contained in this subparagraph shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind, without a license, where such license is or may be required by any law of the State, or under any ordinance of the City;
(4) Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor; or
(5) Which is not covered by the definition of “sign” in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) “Handbill distributor” means any person engaged in the business for hire or gain of distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills, other than newspapers distributed to subscribers thereof, and any person receiving compensation directly or indirectly for the distribution of such handbills.
(d) “Newspaper” means any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with Federal statute or regulation, and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law. It also means any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
(e) “Noncommercial handbill” means any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature not included in the aforementioned definitions of sign, commercial handbill or newspaper.
(Ord. 62-18. Passed 5-2-62.)